Earlier than expected by some, the Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 7 is now available for download by anyone with an MSDN subscription.
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun—developer testing! The latest version of the world’s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.
Anyone have a torrent?
Well, it looks like thepiratebay has it now. And it looks like they’re catching up to Firefox pretty quick!
For my final comment flood on this fine article, IE7 is a nice browser… FOR ME TO POOP ON!
First you get the pleasure of changing your product key so the installer is convinced you own a legit copy of Windows, then changing it back after the install so Windows Update doesn’t freak out and start firebombing your house. The browser itself looks almost identical to Firefox, except the super new “innovation” of moving the menubar below everything else, and making sure the UI functions drastically different than any other piece of software on your computer. The tabs don’t look much different than the MSN toolbar tabs hack, but they’re functional and the button to open a new tab is nice. The CSS support is still largely broken, but a few random things have changed so CSS monkeys will have a field day trying to figure out which IE hacks broke, which ones are irrelevant, which ones still need to be applied, etc.
Why whould I pay to test Beta software? Huh.
If you happen to have a pirated OS you can download a matching pirated IE7 here.
no need for torrents, go to http://www.softpedia.com
Plzzzz
“And it looks like they’re catching up to Firefox pretty quick!”
Never be as good though…
FIREFOX IS A SLOW PIECE OF CRAP. STFU YOU NOOBS. Not only does it take more resources than Internet Explorer, but the download speed is random, and when I downloaded the the same file five times with both IE and Firefox, IE got 5/5 for speed. Hmmm…I wonder why?
Idiots
You most likely didn’t update your firefox yet.. how many f**king a** pop ups do you get from ie?? It is slowest piece of shit available, almost as slow you are dickhead.
All ill says is OPERA
Even IE7 is not standart compilant browser. While Firefox 1.5 fully supports css2 and some of css3 feautures, IE doesn’t supports even all css2 feautures. And I heared that “Microsoft doesn’t plan to fully support the latest CSS standard in IE 7.0″ http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=47208&cpage=14
What about JavaScript?.. Firefox has built in core JavaScript support and even some of it’s parts are writen in JavaScript (extensions). So it fully supports latest JavaScript!
Firefox is opensource product and it’s developers responsible for writing clean and bugless code, but nobody can see what is in IE… You say – so, why IE is most popular than Firefox? Because IE ships with Windows…
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